In a shock result, Calin Georgescu is leading in the first round of the presidential election.
Romania has been a staunch ally of Ukraine since Russia’s full scale invasion, but it has just voted for an anti-Nato, Putin-praising hard-right presidential candidate.Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Sir Tony Brenton, a former ambassador to Russia.If you’re sitting in Ukraine, are you looking at the ground around you and thinking it’s not as firm as you thought?Well, yes, certainly. I mean, the war doesn’t seem to be going very well for them.
And for example, this unfortunate man, James Anderson, who’s just fallen into Russian hands, we have rather limited means to to get him out. And there must be a certain amount of pessimism. Frankly, as I watch the atmosphere, which I do quite closely here, I watched a number of distinguished commentators like Lord Dannatt move away from the flak position: ‘we must back Ukraine in all terms,’ to a much more nuanced position. Yes, we need to get talks going.
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